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LONDON – Germany, Britain and France, also known as E3, urged Iran on Tuesday to abandon its decision to suspend implementation of the additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for which it grants special audit authorizations to inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “We urge Iran …

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Thursday that it would agree to meet with Iran and other world powers involved in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal, the first public step towards renewed diplomacy with Tehran, USA TODAY reported. Ned Price, a State Department spokesman, said the United States would “accept …

BEIJING – Talking about driving the global economic recovery at the next G7 summit without China, or even emphasizing the “challenge from China” at the meeting, would be “sailing the sea without a compass”, which will give the declining EU contribution to the global economy and China’s growing role as …

WASHINGTON – Senior diplomats from the United States, Germany, France and Britain will meet on Thursday to discuss the future of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, from which Washington withdrew in 2018. Tehran’s deal with the four Western powers, as well as China and Russia, called for restrictions …

MOSCOW – Russia said it was expelling diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden for participating in unauthorized protests in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a move that the EU’s top diplomat and several European leaders have condemned as “unjustified” and “completely unfounded”. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in …

KABUL – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan should be tied to progress in intra-Afghan negotiations rather than “slavishly” bound to the end-of-April deadline as per the US-Taliban agreement. Speaking at an event organized by Die Zeit and three other German newspapers, …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Sunday rejected a claim by France that Tehran was building its nuclear weapons, calling it “absurd nonsense”. French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche published on Saturday, said Iran was boosting its nuclear weapons …

BRUSSELS – The European Union (EU) on Monday called on Iran to abandon its efforts to enrich uranium by up to 20% and fulfill the obligations of the nuclear deal it signed in 2015. EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said that the bloc continued to support the Joint Comprehensive …

LONDON – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria have all announced restrictions on travel to the United Kingdom (UK) as the new Covid-19 strain spreads much faster. A growing list of European Union countries have decided to ban flights from the UK and others are considering …

TEHRAN – The head of the office of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Vaezi, said that Germany is one of the traditional trade and economic partners of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Tehran welcomes the expansion of cooperation. Vaezi met German Ambassador to Iran, Hans Odo Motzel, in Tehran on …